A lot happened this week; big news first: 8 of 15 are girls! The others are too close to tell.
Type #1 cups are a slow short bushy plant with a high yield. If I grow this type to full size it takes 2-3 weeks more than my other strain. 3/4 to 1/2 pound.
Type #3 cups are a fast tall skinny with a good yield. 1/2 to 1/4 pound.
Topping and seed vs clone have an effect, so 12/12 will also. I will just work it out on the fly.
The Garden.
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6 of 9 type 3's are girls. These are the ones I've done this with before.
2 of 6 type 1's are girls.
3 of the #3's have moved into 6" white pots. If #1's move, I'll use green pots.
These will be very easy to grow from now on. They drink around 16 oz once a day. Twice at growth spurts. Then every 2-3 days in their fall. If I had a hyd. grow I could walk away for 2 weeks at this point and all would be fine and on target with the odd 1 or 2 opps.
Their grow mix is as follows:
Water Odd - ratio of 10ml Tiger bloom, 15ml Big Bloom, 1/2 tsp Open Sesame per one gallion of water.
Water Even - ratio of 15ml Big Bloom. If plant is sick just give this until better. If no improvement give straight H2O and post in plant help forum.
Tip of the day:
With 16 plants all on diff waters, I use plastic plant markers.
I water these every other day, so on odd days I give a hot mix. On even days I give the even mix.
Yellow = girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EDIT. . . . . . as of now Yellow = Unknown sex
White = Hot Mix (the mix I use on odd days)
Blue = Even Mix (if in doubt give this one)
Green = sick, off of standard diet. I move it to the front to find it fast and easy.
Level II The girls in cups.
They grow the same but require less water at once, but can be as much as 3x a day. A fix for a day or two if must leave them without a plant sitter (we all don't have a MrsRocket to step up) just set in a big tray with an inch of nute water, the roots will suck it up. You will know what schedule they are on very fast.
As soon as the first new grow areas at the stalk start, and the pre flowers start, or the plants are 6-7 inches high, use a mix of 15ml of Grow Big and 1/4 tsp of Open Sesame per gallon of water, as a hot mix for your odd days.
Plants up to this point in growth, without the new growth areas, give the above hot mix 1 in every 3 waters. I use 2 blue markers to one white marker.
Cold mix for all formulas (even days mix): 15 ml Big Bloom per gallon of water.
the hold outs
The room under mh with 2700k cfl's
I'll switch back to hps in 1 week, it just timed out that this trick can work on both grows. Otherwise I would have left in the hps light.